China sent 70 PRC cleaners to check out Singapore, Malaysia sanitation

[RonRon]

YIBIN, China - Seventy cleaners from a south-west Chinese city are on a government-sponsored trip to Malaysia and Singapore to learn about the two countries' experiences in the field of sanitation - a move which has triggered debate in China over whether such a study tour can improve cleaning standards.

'This is the second time the local government is financing such a tour for model cleaners outside the Chinese mainland,' said Mr Yuan Xianyin, an information officer in the city of Yibin, in Sichuan province, referring to the four group visits scheduled for different times between Nov18 and Dec14.

Last year, 61 model cleaners were sent to Hong Kong and Macao on a similar tour, said Mr Yuan.

BACKGROUND STORY

WHY THE GUISE?

'It is actually about rewarding model cleaners, but with the guise of a study tour. Showing respect to ordinary manual workers is good, but is it necessary to link a welfare trip with a study tour?'

Sociology professor Zha Youliang of the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences

Impressed with how sanitation sectors in the two territories operated, members of the last trip came back to offer ideas that greatly improved the environment of Yibin, according to the officer.

 

[Unrepented]

Let them go Genting and MBS, and see how these establishments clean out their pocket.

 

[RonRon]

The communist party treats the lower class with dignity. Tell me which country in the world will show such respect for cleaners by sending them overseas for study tour?

 

[LumparChee]

The communist party treats the lower class with dignity. Tell me which country in the world will show such respect to cleaners by sending them overseas for study tour?

The PRC government officials will grossly overstate the budget for the tour and get kick-backs from the tour agents. PRCs are much smarter in spotting loopholes to make some quick bucks.

 

[johnny333]

Tell me which country in the world will show such respect to cleaners by sending them overseas for study tour?

Spore hires many PRC cleaners. It might not be out of respect, but it does offer those cleaner on job training